YeinJee's Asian Journal » Ebisu http://yeinjee.com Popular blog on Asian culture, lifestyle, entertainment, food, travel, otaku, trends, traditions, pictures, videos, and offbeat stuff. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Maki Horikita is Miss Cotton 2008 http://yeinjee.com/2008/maki-horikita-is-miss-cotton-2008/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/maki-horikita-is-miss-cotton-2008/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 05:28:35 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=279 Japanese starlet Maki Horikita is crowned Miss Cotton 2008. Eiko Koike is named as Mrs Cotton while TOKIO’s Taichi Kokubun the Mr Cotton.

Maki Horikita, Taichi Kokubun and Eiko Koike receiving the Cotton USA Awards 2008
(L-R) Horikita, Kokubun and Koike receiving the awards (Image by Taro Fujimoto)

The 5th Cotton USA Awards, meant to promote the cotton industry in Japan, were presented on May 14 in Ebisu, Tokyo. The annual awards are given to celebrities to celebrities who possess the ‘softness’ and ‘freshness’ like cotton.

That’s just about the weirdest award I have heard of.

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